An urban explorer has taken to social media to show his followers around an abandoned 19th-century castle that has been frozen in time since a tragic event.
An urban explorer has taken a step back in time after venturing around a castle that has been abandoned since its owner tragically died on the Titanic.
Taking to TikTok, user @deserted_places has guided his 4.1million viewers around the grand property in central France.
In the video, he claims the 19th-century castle was abandoned in 1912 as its owner, Norwegian businessman Engelhart Cornelius Østby, died in the shipwreck.
The property remains fully furnished with artwork, table and chairs, sofas, beds, and even children’s toys still in place.
In the kitchen, pots and pans remain on the walls, and in the study, books remain on the shelves and on table tops waiting to be read. Engelhart, 64, and his daughter Helen, 22, travelled first class on the Titanic after boarding in Cherbourg. They each had their own cabins, with Helen taking cabin B-36 and her father in B-30.
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According to Medium, they were both in their cabins when the Titanic struck the iceberg. Shaken and confused, they met up with each other in the corridor between their cabins before walking up to the boat deck. However, Engelhart turned back to the cabin, leaving Helen, to retrieve some warmer clothes.
This was the last time Helen saw her dad alive as she was placed on lifeboat 5 and survived. Engelhart’s body, however, was recovered at sea by cable repair ship, CS-Mackey-Bennett. His body was returned to Providence, Rhode Island, and buried at Swan Point on May 11, 1912.
Recalling the tragic sinking of the Titanic from inside lifeboat 5, Helen reportedly said at the time: “There had been no panic. But at the very end, we could see and hear that the people on board were realising there was no place to go.
“As the ship began to stand on end, we heard a big rumbling, rattling noise as if everything was being torn from its moorings inside the ship. All of a sudden that stopped, and she stood on end very quietly for a minute, then went down like an arrow.”
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Helen returned to Providence and became co-owner of her dad’s business Østby & Barton in 1914 alongside her brother Harold and one of his daughters. She was trapped in Germany when on a business trip in that same year, but escaped through Flanders.
However, after arriving in Liege on the very same day as the German army, she had to make another escape – this time through England before travelling to America. During the Second World War, Helen, now in Belgium, was awoken by bombs falling from German planes. She fled to Lisbon for three months until a plane for America arrived in January 1941.
She spent the rest of her life in Rhode Island, spending her later years working as a volunteer at Rhode Island Hospital. While she had many admirers, Helen never married and died on May 15, 1978, aged 88. She was buried near her dad at Swan Point in Providence.
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